Thanks everyone! It's been a long journey getting here, but the trip isn't over yet. I've added a homemade reflector (some tin foil lol), and that has given me much greater plant growth, but I still want my dwarf sag to carpet the bottom. The moss has done amazingly, tho! I've already had to trim it back once. Not to mention I want then entire tank crawling with chrimps! :3 I gotta play with my macro settings more and see what other pictures I can get of the little devils.

Inspired by your tank, I added a feeding dish to my shrimp tank and so far, so good. Not only do I have more surviving shrimp than I thought (11-12) but it's allowed me to decimate the scud population since they're so easy to suck up once they're in the dish. I also think it's cutting down on the seed shrimp.

You are very welcome! But I can't take credit for the idea. I got it from some serious shrimp keepers on another forum. I can't imagine a shrimp tank without one now. It's so much easier to count the shrimps as well as see who is berried or saddled.

I had a slight snail problem before I got the dish. One night I put a bunch of food in there and just picked up the dish with over half of the snail population in there. BAM. No more snail problem.

The shrimp tank is actually getting a few new denizens today. On top of the fish I ordered for my 29, the seller (who is amazing BTW) also had Sakura reds up for grabs. I got 10 or so of those. They all look female which is wonderful.

^Yeah this. Am I confused it did I read elsewhere on TFK that you have separate colonies now of Sakuras and regular cherries?

You read right. I do have a colony of regular old red cherries in with my remaining betta. I bought them back in July before I went away to the beach. Neither betta (I had two in the divided tank at the time) was eating well and I thought a little live prey would help them bound back. When my last betta dies I'm breaking down the tank and putting the cherries in the 29. I guess since I don't actually have a betta thread the news didn't really come out anywhere but in personal correspondence.

And now the video. Pardon my nasally voice. I was stuffed up when I recorded it.